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Oppose the "ruling class." Or as you sometimes put it, "the political class." A term that you (often fairly) apply to mainstream Washignton. The same mainstream Washington that gave us the bipartisan FannieMae/FreddieMac debacle. (Thank you Jamie Gorelick and Franklin Raines. Thank you, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. And thanks, Paul Krugman, for you defense of the status quo several years ago.) Dwarfing, by an order of several magnitudes, anything the left views as scandalous with Enron, or Bear Stearns or Countrywide.
Glenn, I accept your arguments as a cogent and well-argued position. I come to a different conclusion on the facts, and I think that you mostly try to criminalize policy differences.
But in this political season, there are candidates for you to choose from, who really do appear to oppose the entire "political class." Assuredly, Barack Obama is not one of those candidates. Why do you, and your readers who are like-minded, not support a candidate who truly believes in a wholesale alternative to the current "political class"?
